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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Fwd: Your opinion on interoperability workshop or conference
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-05-05 22:27:17
Message-ID: 200805060027.17633.faure () kde ! org
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Anyone interested in speaking about ODF and KOffice -- and interoperability?

(It's been a bit long already for me, the interoperability issues I knew about are getting old...)

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Subject: Your opinion on interoperability workshop or conference
Date: Wednesday 23 April 2008
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Morten_Kj=E6rsgaard?= <mortenk@magenta-aps.dk>
To: faure@kde.org

Dear David Faure

The Danish National IT and Telecom Agency has asked me to investigate 
the possibility of having an international conference/workshop on 
converter interoperability. I have received positive response from a.o. 
SUN and Novell and I would also like to hear your opinion on behalf of 
KDE/KOffice.

For your information: I own and run a small open source company in 
Copenhagen. We work on OS terms with development and consultancy and we 
carry out tasks for public sector authorities. I furthermore chair the 
Danish Open Source Business Association (www.osl.dk) and I am board 
member of Open Forum Europe (www.openforumeurope.org).

Back to the conference/workshop:
As you might be aware we are dependent upon converters in order to have 
document interoperability since the main formats (ODF and OOXML) are not 
interoperable.

The aim of the conference is to focus on the technical issues rather 
than the political aspects. Thus the National IT and Telecom Agency is 
interested in you and your colleagues participating as technicians and 
not as proponents for one document format or the other, let alone the 
standards discussion.

The main background for the conference/workshop is the Danish 
parliamentary decision that all public sector institutions have to be 
able to handle both document formats (ODF and OOXML) from Jan. 1. 2008.

The parliamentary decision emphasizes the need for interoperability and 
the expectation is that in the near future other governments around the 
world are about to take the same approach on open standards and document 
formats. Hence the target group of the conference is international and 
so is the list of invites, both on speakers and audience.

On the speaker list we need some of the best skilled developers (able to 
communicate) on document interoperability. The audience will primarily 
be public sector ICT architects - from Denmark and probably also from 
other parts of Europe.

The tentative time period for the conference is June-September 2008.

I hope to hear from you soon. You can also contact me on + 45 26 83 34 71

Kind regards,
Morten Kjærsgaard

-- 
Morten Kjærsgaard (MD)
Magenta ApS
Studiestræde 14, 1.
DK-1455 København K

tel  +45 3336 9696
dir  +45 3336 9690
mob  +45 2683 3471
fax  +45 3393 4199
       
www.magenta-aps.dk
mortenk@magenta-aps.dk



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-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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